[000:00:00;00] ah, which is 0, great with oh, rush is all me, says able temporarily hold fire in several ukrainian cities to allow civilians to be evacuated. ah, i'm kimbell. this is al jazeera alive from dough home, also coming up. grains president accuses russia of murder, saying its forces are deliberately targeting civilians, cries of condemnation against russia,

grow louder around the world as tens of thousands protest against invasion of ukraine. when a few in key, if you leave basement, will show the city with family. and it's terribly painful. oil prices, serge is the west, can fit is banning crude from russia. it is act jim t. ted am and key of where at the sala, russian military forces are reportedly holding a ceasefire. it's one of several ukrainian cities where humanitarian corridors are being opened to allow people to leave safely. russia says the move comes at the request of the french president minute con. let's go straight to john hall, who joins us live from living. jonah, so have these. see spies, these humanitarian corridors been open.

there is no independent verification whatsoever. this is happening on the ground. these reports emerged in the last hour or 2. from the russian ministry of defense relayed by russian news was suggesting that humanitarian corridors were going to be opened. an hour or so ago now, out of cities like a key of like khaki in the east to me in between the 2 and mary, a pole down in the south. and that civilians would be allowed to exit, evacuate those cities safely, under the watch of ukrainian drones that would monitor for ukrainian. i beg your pardon, rushing drones that would monitor for possible ukrainian interference and intervention . and this was being done at the behest by the request of president emanuel. ready micron of from what i can tell you that in the last few minutes, french television is reporting that emanuel macro denies that he asked the russians

to operate humanitarian corridors in this way. and i think a significant points of caution need to be applied to what is going on here on the one hand, because there is no ukrainian confirmation that it is in any way involved in these corridors. the previous 2 attempts out of multiple, whereas the result of joint agreement between the 2 sides that came out of cease fire talks. this looks much more like a unilateral russian act. and indeed, a ukrainian presidential spokesman has called these actions immoral because the roots and this is the 2nd part of point of caution. the roots being laid out by the russian ministry of defense, all the evacuation point in the direction of belarus, and in the direction of russia. these are roots, purportedly, therefore carrying ukrainians out of the country to bellows and out of the country to russia, which raises the very obvious question, just how many ukrainians under russian bombardment,

knowing that would actually make use of them. toner. meanwhile, there's been shelling of several cities and towns over night swats licensed on the ground. western military intelligence reports suggests that russian ground forces have made little to no progress whatsoever in the last 24 hours. the attacks that are going on now are all heavy artillery, long range and midrange, rocket fi, michelle fire, and some aerial attacks. we here are all ukrainian defense. these are ukranian reports repelling attacks around our cave, apparently retaking an outpost called to guys, that's a town to the northeast. on the northeast and outskirts of caves, we hear of reports of renewed rocket and missile far into the southern city of nikolai. that's a big ship building city on the black sea coast ukrainian forces repelled russian

advances there on sunday. renewed rockets into mc alive. that's quoted. the may a quote to their and i witnesses that would be a root of advance for the russians towards odessa. but they clearly are being held up there and renewed shell fire around the sort of border, big on dormitory times to the west of the capital kia pin, a big center on sunday that came on the shelf 58 civilians kill their with ukrainian operational force report suggesting that russian forces are at that western edge of the capital, reassessing re supplying and readying themselves for an imminent attack on the capital. if so, what about the report to the 3rd round of talks or negotiations, which i believe was expected today a little concrete to give you on that. yes, we've heard the reports that they had agreed to meet on monday, ukrainian,

or russian negotiators. we don't know when we don't know where not unusual that they've been to round to talk so far. we don't tend to hear either confirmation or location details until some point on the day itself. so yes, that is possible later, but you know, frankly no sign whatsoever of either side, backing down on the very clear red lines in this conflict. the ukrainians want a full cease fire and military withdrawal by the russians from ukraine. the russians want an awful lot more, not least the neutrality of ukraine and the recognition of large portions of its territory is now being in russian control and independent of ukraine. these are unbridgeable gaps, frankly, they may be talks about more sci fi, so we haven't seen much fruit of those in the last 2 days. around mario poll, those cease fires 2 days with both having failed to establish, usable and safe routes out of the city of maria. all right, we'll live there now. thanks for that update. the john hall law for us from levine

in west and ukraine. ukraine's president has accused russia of murder saying it's deliberately targeting civilians and its efforts to push further into the country rushes defense ministry. his want of more strikes on ukraine security facilities. the talk about that has more from levy's a civilian volunteer in the northern ukrainian city of her pin on the outskirts of the capitol. finally, journalists are caught up in the moment, some shouts for a doctor. but it's too late for a family. had been trying to get away, leaving elsewhere in the city. russian shells destroy homes. frightened, people run for their lives. families and children caught up in confusion and chaos. i don't believe the money was yours. russian troops have not yet entered keith, but they aren't far away. the convoy has encircled the city for several days. goods depot in a suburb is destroyed by shelling,

but ukraine's forces in the capital are undeterred and say they are ready for the worst was, is a hotel you my, our positions are prepared with fitted them out, were simply waiting to meet them here tools and then we'll change them out, as well as any other units. victory is going to be ours. moscow's forces in ukraine are advancing from the north, east and south by land sea and in the air. the kremlin continues to deny targeting residential areas, but the grim reality on the ground tells a very different story. hundreds of civilians have been killed. apartment blocks, schools and hospitals hit. the ukrainian present says the black sea resort of odessa could be next. who's urged western power to send ukraine more weapons when the war due to bombard duarte or this? they are planning to bombard odessa and the russians always used to come to a dis a. and they felt only warmth, only sincerity in odessa,

and now bombs are coming against odessa, artillery, marseilles, this is going to be a war crime historic crime william his lot. this man who doesn't want to be identified also talks about alleged russian crime. he was working on a cruise ship in the caribbean sea when russia evaded his country. he's come home to fight, to be honest, i am scared. i was scared when i made the decision. i mean, this is the world like people are buying and, and there is, i mean there is a chance that they're going to get shot. i don't know injure or whatever. but as i said now, we are united and on the same everybody on the same risk lives are being turned upside down in ukraine, people having to make whole braking decisions on whether to leave behind their homes and loved ones or risk their safety by staying put when we realized that

the 13th are and get in. but we decided to go even with studying and working as a software engineer, the eastern city of how keith, when the russian shilling began. he showed me pictures of what's left of his office building and describe lead during the violence from my neighborhood, the attorney station, a approximately 10 kilometers, were walking for 2 hours or something. and it was the most care and experience in my life. but amid the fear and destruction, moments of resilience and joy also defiance thousands of people protested in the southern city of high thorn. despite it being taken by russian troops last week, spirits are being tested in ukraine. but this is proof that they aren't yet broken

. natasha butler al jazeera, the v. ukraine. in the 2nd grade card, all the village of bull house was expecting to receive people from the evacuated areas. it's now under the control of russian back rebel forces from don't ask just a few kilometers from the latest front line. but it's smith is there in 8 years of fighting in east new crane, the front lines did not change. now in less than 2 weeks, separatist fighters from don yet can lou ganske with russian support are making significant inroads into ukrainian held territory. but it seems it's not benny's cisco mom, but i do know that there is too many opponents, constant fierce fighting. we are under constant pressure, but i can't say we have suffered a lot of casualties, but our guys are under fire all the time. when we came here, we thought there wouldn't be much resistance. bogus is one of a dozen towns and villages to lu ganske and the nets forces say they've seized so far. the people here said they had no electricity,

heat or water for 10 days. they've only emerged from their bomb shelters for the food handed out by the next school. forties, washington budwani. can you give me some flowers? this woman asks you what we've so many more women in the basement. she says this village is along the humanitarian corridor. that was supposed to allow people to leave the city of all nova, which is surrounded by forces from russia. and next the front line has moved about sort of a few kilometers or to my left towards vol nova, but it remains a very dynamic environment. there is still a constant sound of shelling. so although they're supposed to be a sci fi, there is still a firing going on. and it's going to be an enormous challenge for the people who want to leave vol, nevada, to make it here. certainly along the road we came in on, there were still clearly an active battle field grad rock. it's landed just

a few meters from our convoy as we headed to walk us the people here i've been living with conflict like this, the 8 years it piece piece piece. we only want peace. these women say danielle military. this here, it's mainly fighting what it called ukrainian nationalists, that a russian description, the paramilitaries, it wants to distinguish from the regular ukrainian army. with lucy kicker girls of the dates. you can see how they follow the sci fi here. the head of the local administration tells me 10 days ago. the forces from done yet can were ganske recognized as republics by russia controlled only a 3rd of the territory considered part of that don bass region. they looked to applaud back a lot more since then. bernard smith, al jazeera donahoe's, still head on al jazeera, less rice today rudy's. we look at why shall hankens economic problems have led to

people protesting in the streets. ah look forward to brighter skies the winter sponsored my cattle airways. the wind direction is very, telling it the moment in the middle of europe is a big area of high pressure switch to stopping the weather, moving infinite atlantic and the sort of keep it pushed the east. as a result, we looked like this. brightening sky's mid was a bit of a breeze dull and cold in eastern europe with increasing likelihood of snow flurries and windy wet over the water. but edging in the west side of europe, and this is inducing the wall. so it's paris goes from 7 up just about like 13. but in the east caves about 0, moscow's minus 5, these are temperatures well below freezing in the middle, well below average, i mean, in the middle. so i say it's brightening up, temperatures aren't coming up much, but the son, of course, will feel better. this snow,

proper snow in northern greece and parts of turkey and some proper rain still around in spain. increasingly likely in southern france, there's been active very much so in the military recently and north africa, cairo looked like this yesterday, that dust in the air light sand, small sand, and overnight tonight. and during to say, we can see yet more wip up in libya. hotel sandstorm running through, but for the south in egypt with rain, for the north coast that keeps going east was during tuesday night or wednesday, getting even worse for the weather, sponsored by caraway's, from international politics to the global pandemic, and everything in between it out. back to poor people and here are plenty promised to ensure the safety of women. what happens after 15th until that people actually have more? why is the u. k. feel hostile trail? the mystery to all of us join me if i take one to live with men or the

misconceptions and meet the contradiction. timing, get up prime on out 0. ah ah. your technologies, there are a reminder of our top stories this on russian military forces. a reporter lay to hold fire, to allow civilians to leave safely. humanitarian corridors being opened in several ukrainian cities at the request of the french president manual comp, ukrainian president of law miss zalinski has condemned what he says is the deliberate targeting of civilians. he was in russia's military of murder, fighting around the capital key of has intensified his russian forces advance. here a secretary of state and ne,

blinkin is in this way the up as part of his visit to several nations following russia's invasion of ukraine during a speech to embassy staff. he said moscow is acting against a rules based international order. it's not okay for one country to invade another, to change its borders by force. it's not ok for one country to try to dictate to another it's choices, it's future. it's policies with american associate principles like it's not ok for one country to say it as a sphere of influence over another to try to subjugate their country to as well. all of that is at stake here by russia's aggression. china says it hopes progress can be made between ukraine and russia. during the next round of negotiations, it's promised humanitarian aid to keep the countries foreign minister says beijing is also prepared to help mediate she finally got into you. thoughts on foot watch needed to self complex. his uses a cool head and a rational mind, not adding fuel to the fire,

which only intensifies the situation. china believes that to resolve the crisis, we must uphold the principles of will un charter and protect the sovereign and territorial integrity of all countries. renewable katrina, u. s. i for us now in beijing. katrina, quite a moderate tone there from the foreign minister, but he also continued to refuse to condemn russia over its war and ukraine. that's right. according to one year, china's foreign minister there has been really no change in china's view of the war on ukraine. he said again that this was a complex situation that the security concerns of all parties need to be taken into account and he called the com as well. now again, wish we failed to hear from one e, any use of the word invasion. he failed to condemn the russian attacks. he did express

concern about the humanitarian situation in ukraine, and he said that china would be sending aid to the country via china's red cross. now, when asked about china's rule role in all of this, he said that china was ready to mediate and that chinese president, she's paying actually spoke to vladimir putin during the early days of the conflict and encouraged him to pursue dialogue with ukraine. and he said that as a result, we've seen these ongoing talks between ukraine and russia. now, as we've see, these russian attacks intensify in ukraine as this invasion has, has continued over a few more days. animals around the world have been asking the question, is china now backing away from its relationship or friendship with russia? now, when you answered this question, very clearly during his press conference today, and the answer is a resounding no. he described the friendship between moscow and june as rock solid . he said that this was a strategic non alliance based on non confrontation when it comes to 3rd parties.

and he said that both countries very firmly oppose any cold war mentality. and this would remain into the future, an important bilateral relationship. now, when asked about whether he was worried that this friendship would impact china's other relationships, namely with europe, he said that he didn't think so because that these relationships with separate issues, he described china's relationship with europe as resilient cooperation. he said the to country china and the, the region had deepening a trade ties and that china was very much interested in, in, in hansing. that going further, he pointed towards the china you talks are going to be taking place at the beginning of april. now of one, you didn't have any fighting words. it was for the united states. he said that the u. s. was taking the small steps continuously to suppress china. and when it came to the u. s. is tilt towards the indoor pacific region or the asia pacific. china

accused washington of creating small, the divisive circles in the region. he said that the biden administration was interested in con, trying to create a kind of us lead nato in the asia pacific. purely to pursue its own interests. right. katrina you for sarah and aging. thank you. the international atomic energy agency says it's extremely concerned about reports that ukrainian authorities are having difficulty reaching staff a to nuclear plants and softer fighting broke out and separation on friday. the facility is now under russian control. according to the un nuclear energy body access to mobile networks in the internet, it reported to have the cost of the plant communications with staff and mary, a poll at a plant that handles radioactive material, have also been lost. protests against roches invasion have been held in several countries with goals the western powers to do more to broker a peaceful end to the violence. in russia,

thousands of people were detained at demonstrations. new parker reports from london with a crisis in ukraine, deepening on a daily basis, consumes a growing here in london and in other european capitals about the direction of travel, of this incredibly unpredictable war. as you can see, the campaign for nuclear disarmament is out in force of the placards calling for a stop to the war. i come from lithuania, i feel like nato is doing everything they can. i do not necessarily think they should send they troops to ukraine. i'd leave just yet. i hope we can help with an initial support. my me, i intelligence i'm from west coast. it's terribly painful. with crying every day, my sister there, my nephew in ki, if he meet basement, showed the city with family. and it's terribly painful. it's unbelievable,

but people of ukraine are very strong. you know, if you think you think that western powers could go further than they have done, oh, definitely definitely in what way. but firstly, to stop the gas coaches, the gas in oil, from russia, because this is the most important, i think, i believe there is global disdain for russia's war in ukraine. this is catholic storm, a former soviet states, still heavily under the influence of russia. oh, this is the chilean capital santiago, where people are calling for an end to the violence. yes. in russia there have been courageous acts of defiance in multiple cities. this is saint petersburg. and this is moscow where police out imposed mother. yeah. the kremlin threatened to

jail demonstrators for 15 years, and it's illegal to call the invasion of ukraine, anything but a special operation. ah, on the edge of red square, to protest to sing the ukrainian national anthem before being dragged away. large numbers of russians opposed to the war. now, fleeing that country, squeezed by western sanctions and persecuted by the russian state. yeah. many of these anti war demonstrates is where the edge driven a bridge that we might be able to pull ourselves back from, timed out. so many of these demonstrators for western leaders to help broker but almost impossible political solution to help bring us all back from the bring me fokker, al jazeera london, the price of us brent crude oil has sort again, it's now almost $140.00 a barrel as its highest since 2008. the latest rise comes as the us and its allies,

they're considering and embargo on russian oil. russia is the 3rd biggest oil export in the world supplying around 7000000 barrels a day. unless a predicting that if most of its exports were cut off, the price could reach $200.00 a barrel. far above a record. $147.00 more than a decade ago. and the international monetary fund has warned. the war in sanctions imposed on russia will severely impact the global economy. josh young is chief investment officer at oil and gas equity investment firm, bison interests. he believes russia could benefit from the rising prices. ironically, it might not hurt russia that much. so if russia gets to export, let's say a 3rd less of their oil. and if they have to take a discount on it. but if oil prices are much higher, they might actually net positive on the oil side and similar on other commodities. one thing that we lose track of is how much inflation there's been since the last

time oil prices were anywhere close to this. hi. and so if you look at it on an inflation adjusted basis, you'd be looking at oil close to $200.00 a barrel to be equivalent to the price that i got $2.00 in 2008. and frankly, the world economy is a lot stronger and a lot bigger since then. and it's a lot less oil dependence. so you could actually see, well, prices go a lot higher before causing the recession. and before you see demand destruction, i think there's a good chance that this is not short term. there's always the possibility of a short term pullback after prices rise as much as they have as quickly as they have. but there were these dynamics going on. there was a long downturn for oil, and we too much under investment in oil over the last, let's say, 7 years. and there were very harsh government policies in the us, canada, and elsewhere that were diminishing oil investment and oil production. and so this is kind of the result of that. obviously the russian envision of ukraine was a, it was a catalyst and brought this forward. but this was something that was going to happen

anyway. oil is going to go to all time highs, kind of regardless. in other news, siri is government says and is wally air attack has killed at least 2 people in damascus. several explosions reported they took place of the capitol state medias, reporting that serious military responded to what's being called israeli aggression . and his railey forces have killed a palestinian teenager in the occupied westbank. 16 year old sherman jer file was shot dead near a buddhist on sunday, after allegedly throwing molotov cocktails at soldiers. 9 other palestinians have been killed by israeli forces in the occupied west bank. in the last month, hundreds of people in sri lanka have been protesting against shortages of basic essentials caused by a foreign currency crisis. the government has dep payments to make and has refused to seek international bailouts. it says that can handle the crisis on its own when

al fernandez reports spending hours in queues has become the norm across sri lanka, starting with food, rice, sugar and milk powder. now it's cooking gas and diesel that are in the play bag of odd that are similar. i haven't eaten from the morning and i can't even go drink some water line. i would lose my place otherwise made that a volume it after that, after spending so many hours and cues, we can only run about 2 and a half days. we can't keep doing this. so we appeal for this problem to be solved. the shortages are a result of the government, not having enough dollars to pay for info. this is because it's for in earnings and reserves have been rapidly declining since 2019 huge data payments have eaten into a big chunk of available resources. the crisis has affected all sectors, including public transport. operator said they're struggling to survive from day to day. pick up the dining motto. on the one hand, there's no electricity. they cut power for 7 and a half hours. the diesel stocks i come up with half is given for power generation

and it's only half the stock that's used for everything else. after months of coping, people protesting yet and chill out note of colombo fishermen complain they don't have fuel for their boats. mid afternoon, my husband can't garcia, there's no diesel. i hope those responsible is struck by lightning in columbia or silent protests. enough is enough, is one banner, stop ruining my country, reads another month of skyrocketing prices and shortages of food medicine, cooking gas and fuel have made sri lankan, frustrated and angry. to make matters worse, they have suffered through the worse power got to be impose in more than 25 years, 7 and a half hour interruptions, a d a causing chaos among all segments of the population. she longed as public utilities regulated says it has been pushing to solve the power crisis. this is, has become

a national issue to necessity year. the attention has not been bid by the political hierarchy, then, then now and the door to reduce. so we have been fighting in all with almost everyone to sort out this issue. increasing prices and shortages are not unique to shall anchor. but people here see their leaders of aggravated the situation through years of corruption and mismanagement. miller fernandez o 0, colombo ah . watching out there, a reminder now of the top stories russian military forces are reportedly to hold fire, to allow civilians to leave safely. humanitarian corridors are being opened in several ukrainian cities at the request of the french president emanuel mark kwan ukrainian